Texas Stars Foundation
Cedar Park, TX · EIN 27-3395382. Reported 30 grants totalling $329,176 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Texas Stars Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $12,500; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heroes Night Out Inc | Cedar Park, TX | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cedar Park Public Library Foundation | Cedar Park, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fiscal Sponsorship Allies Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Get Out | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| William Mosing Center | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pink the Rink | $13,110 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Leander Educational Excellence Foundation | Leander, TX | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leef Starwars Jersey Proceeds | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| S a Yes | San Antonio, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Austin Community Foundation | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Breast Cancer Resource Center | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Drive a Senior Central Texas -Chariot | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Promise of Greater New Braunfels | New Braunfels, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Williamson County Child Welfare Board Inc | Georgetown, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central | W Lake Hills, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central Texas Inc | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Round Rock Isd Education Foundation | Round Rock, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Institute of Developmental Pediatrics | Leander, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tuesdays Children | Manhasset, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Austin Dog Alliance | Cedar Park, TX | $8,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc | Austin, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Department of Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation | Austin, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loving Libbie | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Loving Libbie Memorial Foundation | Austin, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Austin Metro Hockey Association | Cedar Park, TX | $6,666 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Men's Grant | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
2 of 28 (7%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Beautifully Loved
USED TO FINISH THEIR ONGOING PROJECT, THEIR COMPASSION CARTS THAT PROVIDE CHILDREN WHO ARE RECEIVING TREATMENT IN LOCAL HOSPITALS WITH SELF-CARE AND CONFORT ITEMS FOR LONG STAYS. - Heroes Resource Center (formerly Heroes Night Out)
PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE ASSISTANCE RANGING FROM CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH CARE TO BENEFITS ASSISTANCE AND SOCIAL OUTINGS. - American Cancer Society
TRAVEL AND LODGING COSTS FOR THOSE FACING CANCER AS WELL AS IMMEDIATE RESOURCE ASSISTANCE. - Family Promise of Greater New Braunfels
SHELTER PROGRAM WHICH HELPS GET INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES OFF THE STREET, PROVIDE THEM WITH MEALS, AND ANY IMMEDIATE NEEDS TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR FEET. - Friends of the Williamson County Child Welfare Board
SENDING SEVERAL CHILDREN TO SUMMER CAMPS, CELEBRATING GRADUATIONS WITH CAPS, GOWNS, AND SPECIAL ATTIRE FOR COURT APPEARANCES, AND HONORING THE ADOPTIONS THAT CAME FROM FOSTER CARE. THE BOARD IS PROUD TO SUPPORT YOUNG ADULTS IN COLLEGE WITH A MONTHLY ALLOWANCE, AND WEVE SPREAD CHEER WITH HOLIDAY GIFTS, BIRTHDAY GIFT CARDS, SCHOOL SUPPLIES, AND SO MUCH MORE. - Round Rock Isd Partners in Education Foundation
ALL FUNDS WILL GO TOWARDS SUPPLYING STUDENTS NAVIGATING HOMELESSNESS WITH SHELF STABLE FOOD, HYGIENE PRODUCTS, SHOES, BLANKETS, AND OTHER BASIC NEEDS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 20 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | $39,110 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $126,166 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 6 | $60,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 8 | $103,900 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
84% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Texas Stars Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 2100 Avenue of the Stars, Cedar Park, TX, 78613.
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